Currently Browsing: February 2014
Second Oscar-nominated feature for writer/director Hany Abu-Assad in the Best Foreign Language Film category. (The first was Paradise Now from 2005). “Omar” (Adam Bakri) is a young Palestinian at the edge of manhood with a choice: does he want to be a “Freedom Fighter” (which in this context means remaining “one of the guys”) or […]
Click HERE to read my synopsis for Chicago’s JUF News. “My mother was incapable of choosing, she wanted everything,” Claude Lanzmann tells us early in the text of his huge 528 page memoir The Patagonian Hare. “I’m like her,” he continues. “It is no accident that Shoah runs to nine and a half hours.” But […]